Zimbardo

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What year was the study carried out in?
1969
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What year was the study published?
1971
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Who made up the sample?
24 male college students
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How much were they paid for participating?
$15/day
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How did they decide the roles of guard and prisoner?
Flipped a coin
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How many guards and prisoners were there?
12 of each
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How were the guards made to feel special?
Given military style clothes, mirrored glasses, equipment and allowed to draw up the rules
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What happened to the prisoners?
Arrested night before, blindfolded, hosed down, ankle chains and given numbers not names
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What happened on the first night?
Prisoners rebelled
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How were prisoners punished on the first night?
Solitary confinement and taunted
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Which prisoner broke down first?
8612
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How did the guards abuse their power?
Degrading and humiliating treatment
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What happened on day 5?
Zimbardo invited his girlfriend who hated it and the following day experiment shut down
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What type of power did the guards have?
Power without restraint
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What is the term for abused power?
Pathology of power
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Who admitted to showing demand characteristics in his role of guard?
David Eshelman
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In what way did the experiment have low external validity?
Guards had no training and prisoners were not actually criminals
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How did the experiment have low reliability?
It was not repeated and due to the individual aspects it would be hard to replicate
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How was Zimbardo's experiment low in objectivity?
There was opinion and interpretation about what they were doing in the experiment but he did film some of it
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